The World Evangelical Alliance “welcomes” Pope Francis’ encyclical and the media attention it has had. “Climate change is real and it is a threat to the integrity of the planet’s ecosystems.”

UN gives the numbers of 2014, an alerts that we are “witnessing a paradigm change” in which reality “is now clearly dwarfing anything seen before.”

More than 600 cases of violence against religious minorities have been registered in the last fifteen months.

A United Nations report admits that many soldiers bartered money, mobile phones and jewellery for sex with people they should have protected in Haití and Liberia.

Global press freedom is at its lowest rate in more than 10 years. Only one in seven people around the world live in countries with a free press.

Millions of people - most of them Jews - died in labour and extermination camps. Europe should not forget.

Organisations asked to give financially and pray that “no effort is duplicated.” Teams are arriving in the region to meet urgent needs. 

Expert Tyler Wigg-Stevenson represented the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) in the discussions about nuclear weapons at the UN. 

Survey says 63% of world's population is “religious.” Thailand comes out as most religious country. European countries like Czech Republic and Spain among top ten "atheist" countries.

New WEA secretary general, “impressed by Ban Ki-moon’s desire to reach out to faith leaders and build trust”.

Taliban bombers are said to have detonated their explosives near the gates of St John's Catholic Church and the Protestant Christ Church.

“Preaching a Christ with no power leads to a church with no message”, concluded the Spanish Evangelical Alliance at their annual meeting. Evangelical identity and ecumenism were the main topics under discussion.

Apologetics is normally understood as defensive, like a castle protecting our Christian faith from different sorts of attacks. No. Apologetics is actively loving and persuading others of the Gospel’s truthfulness.

The movie Amazing Grace was a biography of the life and work of an obscure British politician who lived 200 years ago. Why was William Wilberforce's story so compelling to the modern viewer? 

In our previous articles, we’ve discussed the challenges facing the global Evangelical Church. How do we respond? As with most things, a good place to start is with Jesus.

The International Leadership Forum (ILF) in Tegucigalpa (Honduras) closed by commending Efraim Tendero as the new General Secretary of the World Evangelical Alliance.

A coalition formed by 7,800 soldiers from Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Benin hopes to defeat the terrorist group before the election.

The World Press Photo 2015 jury highlighted homosexuality in Russia, violence in Ukraine and Gaza, and the tragedies of Ebola and inmigration.

First prize goes to a photo supporting the LGBT movement in Russia. Immigration, Ebola and European demonstrations were also highlighted by the jury. 

I am tempted to respond to a friend who has lost a loved one by giving him the three best books on the problem of evil, rather than to love him by weeping with him.

So often, we’re believers who hide under the bed or under a rug, whose main desire is to remain unnoticed so that nobody condemns us to such an extent that we’re unable to deal with it.

Efraim Tendero told Evangelical Focus that challenges for the Gospel include “secularism and humanism dictating the agenda in today's society” and the “progress of Islam”.

February 6th, International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. World Vision says “Education is the key”. Read the interview.

Since the New Year, 118 civilians (7 of them children) have died in Ukraine. Pro-Russian rebels try to build an army of 100,000. Obama is considering sending defensive arms to help Ukrainian forces.

The Evangelical church in the Developing World is like a ship sailing blithely along without realizing that there’s an enormous hole under the water, and it will soon sink.